Baseball Prospectus releases its mid-season Top 50 Prospects list

Big drop for Torres following the injury also surprised Frazier isn't on the list. I mean he has only been called up for like 4 days unless I missed him

Just realized Leody made the list.

I feel like a lot of A guys don't typically make lists like this.

Didn't realize what kind of year Mejia is having at AA. I hadn't seen him this high anywhere but that explains it

Yep. Refining his control and developing an off-speed pitch will be the keys for him. He's only 21, so I like his chances. Julio Urias is out until about August 2018, but I could see Urias, Alvarez, and Buehler in the rotation by 2019. Buehler may actually crack the rotation next year, along with Brock Stewart, Throw in Kershaw, Alex Wood, Stewart, and maybe Mitchell White, Amani Abdullah, Jordan Sheffield, and Dustin May and there's some real depth and talent there.

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I think buehler is getting fast tracked and he may end up in LA as early as next year

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I JUST edited my post to say that very thing! lol

I see Espinoza didn't make the list for San Diego.

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Alvarez must have super electric stuff to still be this high through his struggles this year

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Came across this scouting report on Alvarez on Fangraphs:

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60 FV Prospects

1. Yadier Alvarez, RHP Video
Signed: July 2nd Period, 2015 from Cuba
Age 21 Height 6’3 Weight 175 Bat/Throw R/R
Tool Grades (Present/Future)
Fastball Slider Curveball Changeup Command
60/70 50/60 40/50 40/60 40/55
Relevant/Interesting Metrics
Recorded 34.6% strikeout and 6.9% walk rate at Low-A.

Scouting Report
The ease with which Yadier Alvarez delivers 100 mph fastballs is as unsettling as it is beautiful. Triple-digit fastballs are becoming more common but they usually involve significant visible effort. Alvarez throws 95-plus and looks like he’s settling down to take a nap. He’ll touch 101 and generally sits 96-99 and 94-97 later in starts. His fastball command is below average, as Alvarez has issues maintaining his delivery’s timing and struggles to get on top of his fastball consistently. But the grace in the delivery and Alvarez’s overall athleticism point toward significant development in this area and there are signs that it’s already begun to come. Alvarez cut his walk rate in half after moving from the Arizona League to the Midwest League while his strikeout rate held firm. Scouts who saw him late in the year complimented his ability to throw strikes, something he wasn’t doing consistently as late as June.

Alvarez’s secondaries are also a work in progress but all enjoy substantial projection. His best is a slider in the 82-86 mph range, which should at least be plus at maturity and flashes above that right now. He was tinkering with a curveball during extended spring training that I thought had above-average potential, but it was raw and ran together with his slider quite a bit in my looks. Alvarez’s changeup is well below average but, again, this is exactly the kind of arm that merits changeup projection because of the athleticism, ease in the delivery, arm speed and… well, everything about it. It may come late, but there’s a plus potential changeup in there.

There’s also blatantly obvious risk. Alvarez is young, raw and throws astoundingly hard which all present potential pitfalls. But this combination of body, delivery, arm strength and impact breaking ball is the stuff young aces are made of and the ceiling here is immense. I think this is one of the highest upside arms in the minor leagues.

KATOH+ Projection for first six years: 2.8 WAR

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What happened to Mateo?

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Didn't even think of him

Dude is 22 and hitting .472 in AA (he was struggling at A advanced this year though)

.267/.322/.447 between A advance and AA

He has struggled no doubt but he and Frazier should still be in the top 50